The Japanese yen is so weak that even the US has stepped in to prop up the currency. The joint US-Japan action, the first in 15 years, underscores their unprecedented determination to defend the Asian currency.
Fed Williams: action appropriate if inflation not on 2% track; inflation easing H2 2026 and 2027; strongly backed latest FOMC move; market pricing informative but Fed not required to endorse
lots of wallet hacking recently. scary shit thankfully I don't have this concern - my prime broker uses fireblocks tech, so my $ w/ them is insured up to $30m [QT @DeItaone: BITCOIN SLIPS ON WALLET HACK FEARS Bitcoin dropped 1.3% to $62,591 amid concerns over a potential hack targeting Coldcard wallets. Coinkite urged users to move funds after researchers flagged a flaw that may have enabled attackers to steal roughly $70 million in under an hour.]
$100m stolen would rank Coldcard 2nd all time among 'regular' heists in US history, only 1990 boston museum heist is more ($500m). However, if you rank it among 'crypto' heists it isn't even in Top 10. And if you merged the two lists and called it 'all' heists, crypto would make
Narrative violation. Have been hearing for 18 months frontier models dead. Competition w open source is not zero sum. If you want American AI to win u should cheer for open & closed - we need these revenues to pay for the $1-2 T annual capex build out of American AI.
The Trump Administration invited staffers from major tech companies, including OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, to white house on Tuesday - The Information $GOOGL
AstraZeneca investors had a clear message for the UK drugmaker on Monday: they don't like the idea of a $400 billion merger with Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
Israel's Channel 12 News: An Iranian source to Al-Mayadeen Lebanon: Iran has rejected the latest American offer to open the Strait of Hormuz until the complete end of the war.
Strait of Hormuz: 9 transits Aug 2 vs 23 Jul 31 vs 11 Aug 1; 7 via Iranian Unilateral Scheme; 0 via Traffic Separation Scheme; 39 combined Hormuz+Bab el-Mandeb Aug 2
Strait of Hormuz Nine vessel transits recorded, down from 23 on July 31 and 11 on August 1 Five vessels exited the Gulf, while four entered Seven vessels used the Iranian Unilateral Scheme, with none using the Hormuz Traffic Separation Scheme
Breaking: President Trump's account bought Amazon and Apple before he cut China tariffs and then his administration paid both companies billions in refunds On May 5th, Trump's account bought $5M of Apple and $5M of Amazon The next day, Treasury Secretary Bessent told Congress
It doesn't sound like the Iran negotiations are going well [QT @OilHeadlineNews: Trump complains about Iran's leadership, says they are "unbelievably duplicitous!"]
$AAPL market cap is currently $4.5T, down from $5.0T at the highs last week. $AMZN market cap is currently $3.0T, hitting this level for the first time today. I think $AMZN market cap is bigger than $AAPL market cap within the next 2-3 years.
U.S. forces continue to strictly enforce the U.S. blockade against Iran. As of Aug. 3, CENTCOM has redirected 44 commercial vessels, disabled 2, and boarded 2.
From JUNE ... MAG7 & software max crowded on SHORT Side ... to now MAG7 sentiment shifting in real time - GS moving MSFT to their CONVICTION LIST - earnings "tone check" and cloud #'s last week - X NLP becoming more positive... *today insane net FLOWS into the MAG7 complex ...
US Treasury Raises July-September Borrowing Estimate to $739 Billion US Treasury expects to borrow $739 billion in privately held net marketable debt during the July-September 2026 quarter, assuming an end-September cash balance of $950 billion The estimate is $68 billion
Welcome to August 3, 2026 The Singularity no longer finishes your sentences, it finishes your projects. Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, 2.4 trillion parameters with 95 billion active, its first Max-class model going open-weight
An OpenAI agent escaped. Hugging Face wants $100M in compute. Clem Delangue also wants the traces published, because no US law currently requires anyone to admit this happened at all.
Sequoia led a $1 billion funding round for Valar that the nuclear startup says will help it shift from demonstrating small reactors to producing them in volume
Iran General Rezaei: 'If warships or military forces are brought to the Strait of Hormuz for that purpose, we will target them'; Iran continued attacks 2 days after US stopped; Iran: 'won't allow any Hormuz route except the Iranian one'
Iran General Rezaei: 'prepared to attack three points in Ukraine, but after that country apologized, we canceled'; Saudi official denied involvement in Iraq attack via Iran MFA
Apple wants your next iPhone to feel more like a Netflix subscription. Mark Gurman breaks down the company's new Apple Upgrade program, and why it could encourage more device upgrades while boosting Apple's long-term profits
PLTR Q2 Revenue $1.93B vs $1.81B est (+7%); EPS $0.41 vs $0.35 est (+17%); EBITDA $1.20B vs $1.09B est; US Commercial Rev $764M vs $716.4M est; Q3 guide $2.16B vs $2.00B est; FY2026 guide $8.15-8.16B vs prior $7.65-7.66B; stock +8%
$PLTR Palantir Q2 Earnings & FY2026 Outlook Adjusted EPS $0.41, est. $0.35 Revenue $1.94B, est. $1.81B Adjusted EBITDA $1.20B, est. $1.09B U.S. Commercial Revenue $764M, est. $716.4M Sees Q3 Revenue $2.16B, est. $2.00B Sees FY Revenue $8.15B–$8.16B vs. prior $7.65B–$7.66B
Sometimes, life really is like a French novel. On July 30, as many as 60,000 people, almost all of them young men, forced their way into Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on the coast of north Africa, by land and sea
Apple is yet again challenging the UK government in court over its attempts to access the encrypted data of customers, including iPhone users, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Kaleidos; 1-megawatt reactor; shipping container; Idaho National Laboratory; DOME test bed; first new US reactor design; 50 units/year; Oak Ridge factory
"Kaleidos is our 1-megawatt reactor that fits in a shipping container." "Its fuel just arrived at Idaho National Laboratory for full-power testing, the first new US reactor design to run in the DOME test bed, and our factory in Oak Ridge is designed to build 50 units a year"
A group of US states filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's new global tariffs that went into effect last month, adding to similar complaints by groups of small businesses who claim the levies are illegal
The head of U.S. Pacific Command said Monday that coercive actions by China and other actors are challenging regional stability, warning the United States will not allow any nation to dominate the Indo-Pacific.
As the Iran war enters its sixth month, the toll continues to grow. The United Nations says more than 2,500 children have been killed or injured in Iran alone.
The Rhine River's water levels dropped to their lowest in nearly 150 years as hot, dry weather grips Europe, disrupting a crucial route for transporting coal, fuel and industrial commodities across a large swath of the continent.
GPT-Live; realtime audio; listen while speaking; rebuilt full voice stack client-to-model; reasoning + tool use without audio interruption; ChatGPT scale
GPT-Live is a new architecture and stack for realtime audio: [QT @OpenAI: GPT-Live can listen while it speaks. To make that feel natural at ChatGPT scale, we rebuilt the voice stack from client to model. This new architecture keeps audio flowing continuously, so deeper reasoning and tool use don't interrupt the conversation.]
Hedge funds are rushing back into tech stocks: In the week ending Thursday, hedge funds recorded their largest purchase of US technology stocks since December 2022. This also marked the 3rd-largest weekly purchase in at least 5 years. The move was primarily driven by long
Leveraged ETFs in chip stocks are seeing historic capital flows. Global leveraged and inverse ETFs tracking SK Hynix now hold ~$5.5 billion in assets, the most of any single stock worldwide. This is followed by Micron, $MU, and Nvidia, $NVDA, which account for ~$5.1 billion and
Iraq is offering effectively a $25-$29 a barrel payment to anyone willing to risk loading at its port inside the Persian Gulf and take the barrels out. On a single VLCC, that's a ~$50-$58 million potential profit, minus costs (and the risk of getting sunk by Iran, that's it).
Pemex Krem-1 exploratory well closure, ~5 months post-accident, fire + prolonged natural gas flaring
Mexican state-owned oil company Pemex reported on Sunday that it had completed the closure of its Krem-1 exploratory well, nearly five months after an accident caused a fire and the prolonged flaring of natural gas.
A record heatwave is gripping the Korean peninsula, sending temperatures soaring across South Korea and North Korea as authorities expand emergency measures and residents seek relief in cooling shelters, beaches and water parks.
An earthquake measuring 5.6 in magnitude struck 38 km (24 miles) north of the Egyptian city of Suez just after 3:00 a.m. (0000 GMT) on Monday, Egypt's National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics said.
Top finance talent continues to bet on the Gulf, and Prince Alwaleed deepens his partnership with Saudi Arabia's wealth fund. Read the latest Mideast Money newsletter.
"We know that the situation inside the county is increasingly desperate - they're going to have to come to the table," says Heritage Foundation's Victoria Coates of Iran.
Yep Joseph is accurate. It's theatre. MOF has all manner of dollar liquidity to avoid selling USTs. [QT @josephwang: Bessent's promotion of the FIMA Repo Facility is just theatre to boost the effect of his FX intervention - similar to his leaking of the his 'to do list.' FIMA Repo makes no sense for Japan. The open secret is Japan already has hundreds of billions of dollars parked at the Fed's]
I always wished more VCs would open-source investment memos. So this is why we invested $10M in @lqiao. [QT @P_Bonnet: You probably used @FireworksAI_HQ this week. The cool part is that you just did not know you did. Open-source models are free, sure... but the hard part is tailoring them so they perform best on your own use cases. And making them run fast, cheaply, and reliably]
Caterpillar's stock is limping into the earnings report after losing nearly a quarter of its value, setting the results up as a test for investors to see if enthusiasm about the company being an AI play has gone too far
American Bitcoin(特朗普家族支持、去年推出的矿企)公布连续第三个季度亏损,原因为持仓比特币市值下跌
American Bitcoin; Trump family-backed; third consecutive quarterly loss; BTC holdings value decline; launched before BTC tumbled from record highs
American Bitcoin的持续亏损揭示政治背书与矿企实际财务的落差,在比特币减半后挖矿收入收缩的背景下,依赖持仓增值的矿企商业模式承压明显。入场时机恰在比特币高点前更加放大了账面损失,为高调矿企提供了风险警示案例。
American Bitcoin, the Trump family-backed miner launched last year just before the cryptocurrency tumbled from record highs, posted a third consecutive quarterly loss after a decline in the value of its holdings
"The market became addicted to knowing what the Fed was going to do. What Kevin is doing right now, he's trying to get the market off the addiction," says IBM Vice Chairman Gary Cohn, as he discusses market reaction to Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh's handling of the US
Fundstrat Tom Lee指出,标普500自5月以来区间震荡,而2027年EPS预期上调15美元/股、AI资本支出能见度增强、通胀超预期降温且9月前无联储会议,认为8月股市将表现良好。
S&P 500 rangebound since May; 2027 EPS +$15/share; AI capex visibility stronger; inflation cooling faster than consensus; no FOMC until September
Lee的论点建立于盈利上修+通胀降温+政策真空期的三重组合之上;Mary Ann Bartels亦指出盈利应被积极评价,看好本轮世俗牛市延续至本十年末,但七巨头估值历史低位同时也暗示市场存在分歧。
S&P 500 $SPY rangebound since May, while: - S&P 500 2027 EPS ⬆️ $15 per share - AI capex visibility stronger - massive deleveraging Korea $EWY and US tech $QQQ - no Fed meeting until Sept - Inflation cooling faster than consensus views Stocks are set up for a good August
Cuba was hit by its fourth island-wide blackout in less than a month, as US energy restrictions and decrepit infrastructure continue to hammer the Caribbean nation.
Strategy; +$250M USD Reserve; $81M STRC repurchase; $4.0B total USD Reserve; USD Duration +57 days to 2.3 years; STRC BTC Credit tightened 5bps; 842,138 BTC as of Aug 2, 2026
Strategy increased its USD Reserve by $250M and repurchased $81M of $STRC. This increased USD Duration by 57 days to 2.3 years and tightened STRC's BTC Credit by 5 bps. As of 8/2/26, we hold ₿842,138 in our BTC Reserve and $4.0B in our USD Reserve. $MSTR
Kuwait's crude oil production climbed by almost 20% last month to the highest average level since the start of the Iran war, according to data from officials
The Colombian peso is headed for its biggest drop in three months after the central bank unexpectedly paused rate hikes and unveiled a plan to build dollar reserves
Zach, Justin & team are what I love best about the American innovation machine - solving massive problems at scale in record time. Grt product for homeowners & distributed energy storage will be key to winning the AI race.
ELIMINATED: Mahmoud Fatair, a Nukhba commander in the Islamic Jihad's Central Gaza Brigade. Mahmoud infiltrated Israel on October 7 and took part in holding Rom Braslavski hostage in the custody of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization
Light winds and lower temperatures were in the forecast Monday to help firefighters with wildfires in eastern Washington state that forced the evacuation of 60,000 people in the Spokane area while destroying at least 600 homes, businesses and other structures.
US Treasuries will resume their retreat if the Federal Reserve can't do a better job communicating how it will meet its 2% inflation target, Bank of America's Mark Cabana said
"Kimi actually beat all American models, including Fable, in some subset of tasks. Distillation is only part of the story, and there's something those labs are doing above and beyond distillation. That narrative violation has..."
Essar Group £4.3B ($5.8B) UK Stanlow refinery; energy transition hub; low-carbon hydrogen focus
Essar Group plans to invest £4.3 billion ($5.8 billion) in the expansion of its UK Stanlow refinery to include an energy transition hub with a focus on low-carbon hydrogen production.
President's Military Spouse Commission EO signed August 3, 2026 at 1:30pm ET
TODAY AT 1:30PM: "President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Monday creating a new White House commission aimed at putting military families at the heart of military readiness" The executive order would establish the President's Military Spouse Commission,
very good news [QT @ethereuminsti: BlackRock has launched two tokenized money market funds. The $6.2 billion BlackRock Select Treasury Based Liquidity Fund (BSTBL) now has a tokenized share class issued on @ethereum, with BNY as transfer agent and tokenization provider. A second vehicle, BRSRV, launches]
.@cdixon on the ethics provisions in the CLARITY Act: "I think there should be ethics rules for government officials. I don't think those should be exclusive to crypto." "This bill, as proposed right now, would be the first bill in US history that regulates an industry and also.."
Copper is pouring into the US at the fastest rate in at least 12 years as traders position ahead of President Donald Trump's decision on tariffs on refined imports
Oil exports from Venezuela plunged in July due to weaker demand from India after a pause in the Iran war unlocked Middle Eastern barrels trapped in the Persian Gulf
Belgium became wholly dependent on Russia for imports of liquefied natural gas last month as the war in the Middle East caused a slump in supply to Europe
Google pays $60M yearly. Reddit made $805M last quarter. Steve Huffman was asked if Reddit might cut Google off and said the range of outcomes is wide.
BREAKING: Trump is reportedly indifferent to losing congressional majorities in the upcoming midterms because he intends to focus on executive actions and pardons rather than passing legislation, per Axios
Say hello to institutional-grade credit on Solana via @kamino [QT @kamino: Introducing Kamino Institutional Yield. Purpose-built on-chain vault infrastructure connecting real-world, institutional credit markets with on-chain users. Commodity Yield, the first vault built on this infrastructure, is now live. Initial deposit capacity: $25M USDC.]
Russia is weighing support for retailers after Ukrainian strikes caused billions of dollars of estimated losses at warehouses owned by Wildberries, the country's answer to Amazon
Saudi Arabia crude exports lower July 2026; Persian Gulf + Red Sea vessel traffic threats simultaneously
Saudi Arabia's observed crude oil exports edged lower in July as the kingdom's shipments were held back by threats to vessel traffic in both the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea
India increased oil product export levies; domestic fuel stockpiles; global supply tight; US-Iran war pause
India increased levies on exports of oil products to bolster domestic fuel stockpiles while global supplies remained tight despite a pause in fighting between the US and Iran
AI benchmarking market $1.2B now → $9.6B by 2035; ~8x growth; Intelligence.ai ARR $5M → $60M in 6 months; 5.5M users; 190+ countries; $7.9M seed led by Index Ventures
AI benchmarking is becoming a multi-billion dollar industry. As the number of AI models multiplies, benchmarking is becoming its own market. This market now stands at ~$1.2 billion and is expected to grow to $9.6 billion by 2035. This also implies over ~8x growth over then
Snap posted higher-than-projected quarterly sales and gave an upbeat forecast for the current period, signaling optimism ahead of the September commercial debut of its first pair of augmented reality glasses.
Millennium Management -2.1% July 2026; AI stocks selloff; multistrategy equity portfolios impacted
Multistrategy hedge fund giant Millennium Management lost 2.1% last month as a selloff in artificial intelligence stocks took a toll on equity portfolios.
India plans tax breaks for foreign firms supplying machinery to local electronics manufacturers, boosting companies like Apple and Google as they expand production
MoffettNathanson Research Analyst Julie Zhu says SpaceX almost has an "identity crisis." Elon Musk's company is set to report its first-ever quarterly earnings results on Tuesday after going public this summer
多名用户公开反映Claude Opus 5在基础事实问答中频繁出错且拒绝修正;Nate Silver亦指出Claude随上下文窗口增长变得愈发固执,与个人长期使用体验一致。
Claude Opus 5; basic fact errors; refuses to correct; increasingly stubborn as context window grows; Nate Silver + multiple users
Opus 5的质量投诉涵盖事实准确性和长上下文顽固性两个维度,与Anthropic近期$80B ARR的商业成功形成反差。若问题系统性存在,可能对Anthropic在企业和专业用户市场的竞争壁垒造成短期侵蚀。
This is an interesting admission from Claude, and it's consistent with my experience with it. It gets more stubborn and attached as the context window gets longer. Kind of like people as they age, arguably.
Williams; Momentum Midstream; EnCap Flatrock Midstream; up to $5.5B; US Gulf Coast natural gas network expansion
Williams reached a deal to buy Momentum Midstream from the private equity firm EnCap Flatrock Midstream through a deal valued up to $5.5 billion, expanding its natural gas network along the US Gulf Coast.
TKO; UFC Freedom 250; Washington DC; June 14, 2026; -$30M net loss; media exposure + partnership deals as offset
TKO said it lost $30 million on the UFC Freedom 250 mixed martial arts event held in Washington on June 14, but gained in other ways in terms of media exposure and partnership deals.
Apple; incoming CEO John Ternus; trusted lieutenant from hardware engineering tenure; new management team formation
Incoming Apple Chief Executive Officer John Ternus is bringing back a trusted lieutenant from his time running hardware engineering to join his new management team.
WATCH: FORMER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE DR. MARK T. ESPER SAYS THE US MUST PASS THE CLARITY ACT TO PROTECT AMERICA'S FINANCIAL SYSTEM AND MAINTAIN LEADERSHIP OVER CHINA IN DIGITAL TECH